Chief Technical Officer

2 weeks ago

Kings Norton, United Kingdom Evolve Recruitment Full time

**Job Title: Chief Technical Officer**

**Location: Remote + some travel to Offices in Birmingham and Edinburgh**

**Salary: £75-80K + Bonus & Benefits**

**IMMEDIATE INTERVIEWS**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Reporting directly to the MD, you will be responsible for leading the R&D team covering technical leadership, strategy, product direction, development best practice, devops practice and compliance
- To leverage internal or 3rd party resources to deliver against expectation of all interested stakeholders
- Co-oordinate delivery of key technical projects within the company
- Understand the potential benefits of different types of team model, utilising local, near shore and off shore resources where appropriate.
- Build strong relationships with all senior managers within the company and cultivate a culture of knowledge sharing, improvement and assistance across the company
- Lead strategic engineering, infrastructure and technology vision that creates and maintains a roadmap to deliver sustainable software for the future
- Develop and implement a fit for purpose compliance framework for products and services offered by the company, taking into account any regulatory compliance requirements.
- Assist in identifying and managing risks associated with the delivery of companies products and services.
- Keep abreast of regularity developments within or outside of the Company as well as evolving best practices in compliance control
- Understand how the products and services delivered by the company are used by the companies’ customers and lead the technical direction for those products.
- Work alongside Product Managers and Product Owners to ensure that proposed solutions are designed with the customer in mind and are delivered to a high-quality standard.
- Lead the R&D team and foster a culture of empowerment which encourages people to take personal ownership and accountability for their contributions.
- To support the business in the awareness of current and future technology trends
- Conduct periodic internal reviews or audits to ensure that compliance procedures are being followed, reporting on exceptions and advising plan of action to rectify.
- Negotiate service level agreements with both internal and external partners and monitor service delivery to ensure the agreed targets and standards are met
- Direct the preparation and implementation of policies, procedures and standards relating to information, online payment and software systems
- Define and drive software solutions strategy and technical development architecture across the organisation in support of the company’s mission and core objectives
- Ensure development is in line with market requirements, bringing a very strong commercial focus to the role, including resource management and monitoring of competitive activities
- Monitor team performance with tracking and establish corrective measures as needed, and prepare detailed board level reports, both current and forecasting
- Develop a learning, researching and evaluating culture for new technologies within the team

**Skills & Qualifications**:

- Worked at a Senior Executive Level for a minimum of 3 years
- Proven track record in the Management of R&D Teams
- Ability to demonstrate and articulate software development concepts to a leadership team audience
- Demonstrable evidence of an understanding of privacy and compliance legislation in the UK and Europe, including the GDPR
- Experience in developing and maintaining policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines
- Competent user of MS office packages such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

**Your personal characteristics will include**:

- Positive attitude and work ethic, with a strong drive for results
- High quality decision making and problem solving skills, with the ability to grasp new and complex concepts quickly, with the confidence to "challenge the norm"
- Ability to forge strong relationships with all stakeholders
- Strong demonstrable evidence of motivating and developing a team
- Strong time management skills and ability to multi-task between various on-going responsibilities
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong organisational skills and can organise and influence others in similar ways.
- Strong presentation/reporting skills
- Persistent and resilient under pressure, with a good sense of humour
- Creative, keen to share and adopt new ideas with a proactive and enthusiastic attitude
- Flexibility to travel to various sites around the UK and to work additional and varied hours when required.
- Self-motivated, organised, and able to plan own work schedule, to set and monitor personal performance goals
- Strong integrity and trustworthiness, with the ability to manage sensitive information and relationships with a high degree of professionalism

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